ENTREPRENEURS AND LEADERS

School Resource Management: Building a stronger system

June 10, 2022

School Resource Management: Building a stronger system
This publication sets out the department’s offer and approach to supporting schools and academy trusts to get the best value from all their resources. Our ambition is to ensure every individual responsible for the management of school resources can make the best possible decisions, based on an understanding of best practice

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Pinnacle Education

Pinnacle Education, Inc. was founded in 1995, by Dr. Michael Matwick, as an educational development program for students struggling in the traditional high school setting. Our goal is to provide computer-assisted instruction with social skill training and workplace development. In 1998, Pinnacle Education became the first charter school in Arizona and opened a second high school in the East Valley. After only one year, the success of the program, and growth of the student body prompted Pinnacle Education to open additional schools and to offer its unique education via the Internet. Pinnacle Education, Inc. is fully accredited by both CITA and NCA. Today, Pinnacle Education continues to operate five brick-and-mortar schools while providing high school education to more than 10,000 students virtually each year and has expanded its business to include education services to schools and school districts across the United States.

OTHER WHITEPAPERS
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What makes the international schools market different?

whitePaper | August 17, 2022

There are many assumptions and claims made about the international schools market. For the purposes of this white paper and its data collection, ISC Research focuses on those international schools that offer learning in the language of English or as one of the main languages of learning.

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How to Successfully Implement a Learning Management System

whitePaper | December 9, 2022

One of the biggest drivers of member acquisition is continuing education. For example, a 2020 Member Engagement Study revealed that members ranked professional associations as their #1 most trusted source for professional education and training.

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Designing ProjectBased Learning Curricula

whitePaper | May 30, 2022

Project-based learning (PBL) is an inquiry-based approach that aims to engage students in challenging, active, and meaningful experiences connected to the world outside the classroom (Baines et al., 2021a). Project-based learning can improve student performance on traditional measures of academic achievement, build social and emotional learning skills, and engage students in deeper learning. This means focusing on higher-order think-ing and skills that will help students succeed in college, their future careers, and their lives as active members of their communities. The alignment of PBL and deeper learning is supported by a growing body of evidence that PBL has a significant positive impact on student learning and other outcomes of deeper learning (Duke et al., 2021; Deutscher et al., 2021; Krajcik et al., 2021; Saavedra et al., 2021). This paper will provide guidance for those who are designing curricula1 to achieve similar goals through project-based learning.

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One Hundred Leaders’ View on the Back to School Challenge

whitePaper | August 4, 2020

Over the last few months, the i-Ready team has had a chance to talk to more than 100 district leaders about the challenges they face as they plan for the 2020–2021 school year. We explored their challenges, their reasons to be hopeful, and the tools they believe will be most important for success in the year ahead. While every leader we spoke with had unique stories and circumstances, there were remarkable commonalities in the challenges they described.

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6 key concepts in 2022 in corporate training

whitePaper | August 22, 2022

Corporate e-learning is increasingly becoming an important part of modern organizations. According to data released by the Brazilian Association of Training and Development, in 2021 companies should invest 20% more in training and development (T&D), compared to the previous year. Many organizations support this idea and consider corporate training an essential part of a company’s investment and growth strategy

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A Human-Centered Vision for Quality Virtual Learning

whitePaper | August 1, 2022

Count educators, students and their families among those who struggled over the last two years, as K-12 schools became the epicenter of turmoil in local communities. Districts faced more scrutiny than ever — with the media tracking remote learning and safety measures as closely as rising COVID-19 cases and with parents gaining a daily window into what their students were (or weren’t) learning. Districts also dealt with the operational and instructional hurdles of “emergency room-to-Zoom” and keeping staff and students healthy, two challenges they had never faced before

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Spotlight

Pinnacle Education

Pinnacle Education, Inc. was founded in 1995, by Dr. Michael Matwick, as an educational development program for students struggling in the traditional high school setting. Our goal is to provide computer-assisted instruction with social skill training and workplace development. In 1998, Pinnacle Education became the first charter school in Arizona and opened a second high school in the East Valley. After only one year, the success of the program, and growth of the student body prompted Pinnacle Education to open additional schools and to offer its unique education via the Internet. Pinnacle Education, Inc. is fully accredited by both CITA and NCA. Today, Pinnacle Education continues to operate five brick-and-mortar schools while providing high school education to more than 10,000 students virtually each year and has expanded its business to include education services to schools and school districts across the United States.

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